October 5, 2026

The last month has been mostly made of trains, planes and hotel rooms. Looking back at the list, it is longer than I expected when I started.

• Cannes, for the Yachting Festival, with Naitiva.
• Lecco, for a meeting with Lario Innovation Network, a network of young people from that area who are doing promising work.
• Milan and London, for the Liquid Factory road show.
• Genoa, for the Salone Nautico, where we announced Naitiva.

I have lived abroad and travelled for work before, but in more than twenty years of career I had never had a stretch this intense, spread across so many different areas.

On paper this is a tiring schedule. Travel eats hours, sleep gets irregular, and the usual routine of work, writing and side projects mostly stops. I expected to arrive at the end of it empty, but it has been one of the most stimulating periods I can remember.

Different rooms, different questions

Each of these places had a different audience and asked different things. A boat show is about people who build, sell and use boats, and the yachting market is so far from software: some companies live on two yachts built each year. A meeting with a local innovation network is about what young founders and developers are building and what they are missing to start thinking globally. A road show in two large cities is about how a company and its product are read by people who do not know it yet.

What I take from it

I am not going to draw large conclusions. A few smaller ones:

• Being physically present still produces things that calls and messages do not.
• Explaining your work to people outside your own field is a useful test of whether you understand it.
• Tiredness and energy are less correlated than I assumed. A full calendar of interesting conversations is tiring in a way that does not feel like a drain.

The schedule is going to calm down, and I will go back to a more regular routine, at least for a while :)